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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

   My neighbor has apple trees that look like they were blasted with a 
black powder.  The "powder" is the thinnest at the point where a branch was 
cut off and it gets denser farther on down the branch.  Now the same effect 
is starting to show up on some of my trees.  so far, nothing else seems to 
be amiss.  What might that be?

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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